Former FBI official: Media routinely denounced agency’s alleged abuses until Trump was the target

Fox News ^ | May 18 2020 | Talia Kaplan

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Former FBI Assistant Deputy Director Terry Turchie said on “Fox & Friends” on Monday that he has noticed that the mainstream media used to denounce Federal Bureau of Investigation abuses — until the agency went after President Trump.

“It’s something that's kind of surprising,” he said.

Turchie made the comment reacting to The New York Post editorial, which noted that “Democrats and their puppets in the media – once fierce critics of US law enforcement and spying agencies – have suddenly become their biggest champions, at least when the issue is these agencies’ targeting of Team Trump.”

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“It became so bad, in fact, that when Mr. Mueller left in September 2013 and James Comey was coming on, FBI employees, and I'm told hundreds of them, signed a letter and essentially the letter said the FBI is being deliberately led in the wrong direction